I had the honor and privilege of attending a Lasker/IRRF Initiative’s plenary session on Restoring Vision to the Blind at Janelia Farm last month where Mr. Sanford D. Greenberg delivered an emotional and inspiring story of a time in his life where he lost his vision during his junior year at Columbia University. The prospect of …
What You See Is What You Get?
Dwayne Godwin (@BrainyActs) a professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at Wake Forest University posted this fun comic on how visual systems work. It is one of many, really excellent comics he publishes on the nervous system. See more on his Tumbler page here.
Proposed NIH And NEI 2015 Budget
The new 2015 Budget proposal released by Health and Human Services for the NIH has been finalized. This is a proposal released by the White House as a suggestion to Congress on how to distribute federal funds related to research. As we know, this relationship has been contentious to say the least coming at the …
Eye Exams On A Smartphone
Andrew Bastawrous shares with TED a wonderful example of using smartphone technology to screen vision in remote parts of the world, bringing eye care to some of the 39 million people in the world who are blind.
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How To Make An ARVO (Or Any Scientific Meeting) Poster
It is now less than a month before the 2014 ARVO, this year being held in Orlando, Florida and many folks will be starting to put their posters together for the meeting. Ideally, you should have already started, and there are many ways to do it, but judging from the server logs, lots of folks are …
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Ask A Scientist: What Is An Optical Illusion?
My friend, Matt McMahon from the National Eye Institute talks about retinal illusions in this little YouTube video.
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Notes On Blindness
“In 1983, after years of deteriorating vision, John Hull went completely blind. For the next three years he kept a diary on audiocassette. This film is a dramatization using his original recordings.” This opinion documentary, Notes on Blindness from The New York Times – Video directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney is well worth your time. Hat …